Facts

• Segment: Inspection
• Country: Latvia
• Founded: 2018
• Website: https://aerones.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Aerones provides robot-enabled wind turbine maintenance and inspection services. Its systems clean, inspect and repair turbine blades and towers, helping wind-farm operators perform safer, faster maintenance without relying on rope-access crews for every task.

Market context

Aerones matters as a commercially deployed field-robotics company serving renewable-energy infrastructure outside classic factory or warehouse automation. Proprietary robotic systems for wind turbine inspection, cleaning, coating, and repair (blade and tower maintenance). Combines robotic hardware, inspection software, and field service teams.

• Capability: blade internal inspection external visual inspection lightning protection inspection blade and tower cleaning leading edge repair offshore robotic maintenance workflows
• Strategic position: wind turbine maintenance robotics field robotics for renewable infrastructure robotic inspection and repair services offshore wind maintenance expansion

Facts

• Website: https://aerones.com
• HQ: Riga, Latvia
• Founded: 2018
• Segment: Inspection
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2025-06-03 - Growth round - $62M - Aerones secures $62M financing round to expand robotic wind turbine maintenance platform - source: siliconangle.com
• 2023-01-16 - Growth round - $30M - Aerones raises $30M growth round to scale robot-enabled wind turbine maintenance services - source: techcrunch.com

Investors

• Blume Equity - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-01-16 - latest 2025-06-03
• Change Ventures - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-01-16 - latest 2025-06-03
• Lightrock - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-01-16 - latest 2025-06-03
• Metaplanet - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-01-16 - latest 2025-06-03
• Activate Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-03
• Carbon Equity - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-03
• Extantia - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-03
• Overlap Holdings - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-03
• S2G Investments - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-03
• Future Positive Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-01-16
• Haniel - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-01-16
• Mantas Mikuckas - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-01-16
• Pace Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-01-16

Robotic wind turbine maintenance company

Aerones provides robot-enabled wind turbine inspection, cleaning, maintenance and repair services for wind farm operators.

• Target environment: Wind farms, turbine towers, turbine blades, offshore and onshore wind assets and renewable-energy maintenance sites.
• Deployment model: Robotics-enabled service operations using proprietary systems and technician teams to maintain wind turbine assets.
• Customer context: Wind farm owners, renewable-energy operators, asset managers and turbine maintenance teams.
• Workflow context: Blade inspection, tower cleaning, leading-edge repair, turbine maintenance, data capture and predictive maintenance support.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially deployed robotics service company serving wind turbine care and maintenance markets.
• Market position: Field robotics operator focused on wind turbine maintenance rather than selling general-purpose inspection robots.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on turbine access, weather windows, safety, service coverage, repair quality, downtime reduction and asset-owner economics.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes renewable-energy field robotics, turbine inspection robots, robotic maintenance services and infrastructure inspection.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2025-06-03 - Funding - Aerones secures $62M financing round to expand robotic wind turbine maintenance platform - Aerones raised $62 million to expand its robotic and AI-driven wind turbine inspection and maintenance pl…
• 2025-05-22 - Product Launch - Aerones launches Crawler Gen 3 blade internal inspection robot - Aerones introduced Crawler Gen 3 as its next-generation internal blade inspection robot.
• 2025-05-02 - Product Launch - Aerones launches Visual Inspection Studio for wind turbine inspection analysis - Aerones launched Visual Inspection Studio to centralize detailed wind turbine inspection data for customers.
• 2024-10-17 - Demonstration - Aerones completes offshore robotic wind turbine maintenance technology tests in Scotland - Aerones completed offshore wind turbine maintenance technology tests at the ORE Catapult facility n…
• 2024-01-18 - Award - Aerones receives EUR4.416M EU Innovation Fund grant - The grant supports production and deployment of robotic wind turbine blade repair sets.
• 2023-01-16 - Funding - Aerones raises $30M growth round to scale robot-enabled wind turbine maintenance services - Aerones raised $30 million to scale its robotic wind turbine inspection, cleaning, and maintenance servi…

Team

• Dainis Kruze - Co-Founder and CEO
• Janis Putrams - Co-Founder and CTO - Adds technical founder context for Aerones' robotic blade repair, inspection and wind-turbine maintenance systems.
• Arturs Skroderis - COO
• Robert Borglin - Vice President of Global Field Operations

Context tags

• Critical infrastructure robotics - Workflow - Critical infrastructure robotics for energy assets
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Robot OEM for field maintenance systems
• Wind turbine maintenance robotics - Workflow - Robotic wind turbine blade cleaning, inspection and maintenance
• Renewable energy maintenance - Customer Environment - Serves renewable energy maintenance customers
• Renewable energy field robotics - Peer Group - Renewable energy field robotics for wind turbine maintenance
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Commercially deployed with major wind operators